UPDATE for 9 p.m. ET: NASA's Orion spacecraft has successfully returned to Earth to return its Artemis 2 astronauts to Earth. See video and photos of the Artemis 2 splashdown in our wrap story. NASA's ...

When there’s a rocket launch, people tend to see a streak in the sky. When there’s a space-related splashdown, it also looks like a streak in the sky − and a water rescue. Last week, the world tuned ...

SAN DIEGO (KSWB/KUSI) — After the Artemis II crew makes history traveling around the far side of the moon, the crew will be heading back to Earth, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of ...

A conspiracy theorist claims NASA’s Artemis mission was fake, but his main evidence is not rocket data, physics, or mission telemetry. It is the astronauts’ smiles after splashdown. He calls it “duper ...

NASA completed its first medical evacuation early Thursday, when an ailing astronaut and three others splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, more than a month ahead of schedule. The four astronauts — ...

Every crewed mission to the moon starts with fire and ends with water. Artemis II was no different. The spacecraft and crew began their journey on April 1, under the power of six rocket engines ...

Madison Tuttle, A&S '21 (MA), stood on the deck of a Navy ship, watching with bated breath for the Artemis II astronauts to reenter Earth's atmosphere and hurtle toward the Pacific Ocean. Tuttle ...